The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 3, 1921, Page 1

Call By 10,000 Plurality The Star Is Daily Elected Seattle’s Favorite Paper HIEVES ROB AND BURN hx & ‘ Weather {ilk Tonight Temperature Today and probably showers; mod- erate wes Maximum, 73, Saturday, terly winds. Last 4 Hours Minimum, 55. noon, 62. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ~TheSeattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to §9 SS GIRL SLEUTH TELLS HOW SHE TRICKS DOPE AGENT Dija see "em lower coroner five stories from the building as part of the | i ceremonies of Angora Grotto? Must have figured that | ‘if the rope slipped, the coroner would be right on the spot when the accident happened. * o- pit eatimates misfigured by five d@ half millions Huh! A mere but then, you must remember, i only on the first unit. There is reason to believe the misfigur- ‘will amount to a respectable fig- on the entire project. y eee © AND IT's POSSIBLE! ‘University students are going to out Star tomorrow. The lor of ere colyum will be off ‘Job for a day. While the ‘rah Is"will be writing Home | we shall quaff some—if possi- eee is optimistic,” we note a Yaaa, Sure, Banker— + cobbler or candlestick ‘ eee BREAKS RECORD nights for three days,” girl in news inter. eee King adinits his income! 1 Badly strained, says sub-| } One doesn’t have to be a lum- to admit that. ‘darting daughter; ‘ure that you know bow, ft water. Edison's press agent made p list of questions for coilege y question that his ar emt will fail, male of the especies can talk than the male ent ie hottest and they 0 brass each other's relatives © of pungent whacks, hink that hers were angels the female of the species can think faster th2n the male. they're whacking up the doodle that he’s earned thruout the week, how to spend it, he's & Pretty helpless geek; fe ead for him to look at his percent- age of the kale, the female of the spectes can grab @uicker than the male they do their week!y shopping, and they linger ‘round the store, the husband thinks that living te o Most decided bore; ean take a 50-cent piece and get Gry ag by the bale, female of the species ean buy than the male. coe ‘An honest butcher will trim his but not his customers, a eee \ And by the way, Placerville, Cal., boasts of. being the only town in the inited States which has a blind po- liceman. It might be very embarrassing if || Placerville were called upon to prove A WORD FROM 208 WISE | More th’n half th’ men in th’ | | ‘| world wear two collars—one in- | | visible. “Many small factories,” observes | fi Lemmerman, “have loud whis- | ” ees Some fellows are so all-fired lazy ‘that they ride in a flivver so they n't have to take the trouble to) the ashes off their cigars. Y READ THE | ADS TODAY! The Star is chock-full of bargains to- day. How much you profit by them will de- pend on how thoroly you read them—and take ad- |' vantage of the oppor- || tunities they offer. | Make up your entire |) Saturday shopping list from the ads today and just see how much you can save. The best offerings of Seattle’s best stores ap- pear regularly in The | Star. ; | just || Build That Hotel—Yes But Only on Terms That: Are Fair to the “U” HE UNIVERSITY REGENTS were RIGHT in rejecting the hotel proposition as submitted by the Metropolitan Building company. They are NOT RIGHT if they consider the matter closed. It ought not to be closed. The regents should not allow it to be closed, for a $3,000,000 hotel on the university tract will prove a great thing, not only for the city of Se- attle, but for the university itself. In the opinion of The Star, the original offer was NOT FAIR to the university. But that does not gainsay the fact that a hotel is a most desirable asset for the university tract. The problem, then, is to get the hotel there on a FAIR basis. That cannot be achieved if the regents and the Metropolitan Building company lock horns and refuse to negotiate.for new terms. Nothing will improve the university’s downtown holdings so much as a fine, large, fireproof hotel. . Why? Because this hotel would be the civic center of the - for many years, and would consequently attract to the versity tract major traffic. Without tel, th nno AFFIC TO Tie SITE WHERS THE HO TRAFFIC TO THE SITE WHERE THE HO 1s POSED. This is the block bounded north and south by University and Seneca sts., and west and east by Fourth and Fifth aves, 1954, the present lease of the Metropolitan Building company expires, and the tract with all the buildings on it, revert to the university. Will the university tract be part of the major business district of Seattle at that time, or will it be a secondary, or a third-rate district? The one certain way of insuring it as a major business district is to locate Seattle’s civic center there NOW. A three million dollar hotel will do it. It is to the advantage of the university—to the GREAT and LASTING advantage of the university—to get such a hotel. And it is for that reason that The Star cannot urge too strongly that no effort be spared in behalf of the university to obtain this hotel. IT MUST BE OBTAINED ON FAIR TERMS, HOW- EVER—fair to the Metropolitan Building company, but, MORE IMPORTANT, fair to the university. Surely a fair basis can be found. The Metropolitan Building Co. has asked for several concessions. Some are fair and some are not. The fair ones should be accepted, the unfair ones rejected. For instance, the company’s request for an extension of 19 years on the Metropolitan theatre, as well as on the hotel site, does not appear reasonable. The Star does not believe it is entitled to it. An extension on the theatre lease is not essential to the financing of the hotel, AND IT IS ONLY ON THE PLEA THAT A_ $3,000,000 HOTEL CANNOT BE FINANCED EXCEPT ON A 50-YEAR BASIS THAT THERE IS ANY JUSTIFICATION FOR EXTEND- ING THE LEASE ANYWHERE ON THE TRACT. If, upon inquiry by the regents, it should develop that a hotel of this type CAN be financed without extending the Jease term, naturally there should be no extension whatever, not even on the hotel site itself, and not for a single year. Assuming that it cannot be financed except on a 50-year basis, what then? The lease should be extended only on that portion of the tract which is essential for the hotel. é tiged COMPANY CLAIMS as essential, not only the hotel site proper, but also the west side of Fourth ave., op- posite the hotel. Here it is planned to put up a heating plant primarily for the hotei. The company claims the plant cannot be located on the hotel site because the Metropolitan theatre makes an alley- way impossible. Opinion, however, differs on this point. It is contended by some that the plant CAN be established in the basement of the hotel. If, however, the regents deter- mine this is not feasible, the company is entitled to an ex- tension on the west side of Fourth ave. The regents must de- termine, by expert opinion, what portion of the block is needed for the heating plant, and the extension should apply only to that portion. On the other hand, it might be of advantage to the univer- sity to extend the lease on the entire block if the company agrees to put up a building on it of the type of the White, Henry, Stuart and Cobb buildings. The rental for the extra 19 years ought to be determined by two appraisals, one in 1953 and one in 1963. The com- pany’s offer was for one appraisal in 1953 covering the en- tire period, F THESE THINGS can be smoothed out, there can then A be no serious objection to extending the time from 1925 to 1935 in which the company shall be bound to replace pres- ent temporary structure with permanent buildings. Other- wise there IS serious objection, for the university has a direct financial interest here, As matters stand now, the company will be obliged’ by 1925 to put permanent structures, each no less than three stories high, on five blocks of temporary structures, if it is to continue collecting rentals on this property. If it does SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1921. Hotel Proposition in a Nutshell WHAT THE PRESENT LEASE PRO- VIDES: 1. Lease terminates in 1954, and every balling on the tract becomes the property of the University of Washington, 2. All one-story tem buildings now on the tract must porary by 1925 with the Metropolitan . (In consideration of building @ $3,000,000 hotel on the square block now occupied by the Mi politan theatre and @ few temporary one-story store structures.) 1. Extension of the lease to 1973, or 19 years beyond the 1954 period, as follows: &.0n the hotel block itself, ineinding the Metropolitan Hiei not put up new buildings, the university will be entitled to collect the rentals on the temporary structures. The company COULD tear down all the structures and leave no rentals either for itself or the university. It is in- conceivable that it will play dog in the manger in so crude a fashion. Nor is it probable that it will put new buildings on the entire five blocks by 1925. It is more probable it will put up some permanent buildings and leave the remainder for the university. If, then, an extension is to be given the company from 1925 to 1935, an actual financial loss will have accrued to the uni- versity. For this loss, the university is entitled to get some- thing from the company. First of all, it must get a written contract and guarantee that these permanent buildings will be positively put up by 1935, and that the company shall NOT have any OPTION, as it has now, either to build or not to build. That, by it- self, would not be sufficient consideration for modifying this clause in the lease. The clinching consideration must be the building of the hotel on the fairest terms possible to the university. HE WHOLE THING in a nutshell is this: Both the Metropolitan Building company and the uni- versity have much to gain from a nog on the university tract. They defeat themselves if they fail to put their feet under the table—and NEGOTIATE. Talk of recajling the’ regents is silly. The regents were! right in rejectiftg the first offer. They acted in accordance with what they honestly believed their duty. On the other hand, the university should not be made to suffer‘a distinct loss, which it will suffer if the hotel cannot fairly be located on the university tract, simply because of blind prejudice against the Metropolitan Building company. The company, it is true, may have obtained a “fat” lease in the past. But that is past. It is not the issue now. The hotel proposition must be settled on its own merits. Neither hysterical outcries against the regents, nor prejudicial complaints against the company, should affect the matter. THE HOTEL IS NEEDED—NEEDED AS MUCH BY THE UNIVERSITY AS BY THE CITY. The hotel is needed by the Metropolitan Building company, for it will enhance its holdings for the next 31 years in a con- siderable figure. Indeed, the company will be the only finan- cial gainer in the 8. years between the time the hotel is built and the year of 1954. i The hotel is needed, but it won’t be built if the proposition is allowed to be butchered by the wild-eyed in the community, either on one side or the other. The thing to do is to reopen the case. If the Metropolitan Building company isn’t making a new offer, let the board of regents make a counter proposition to the original offer. fer THE- NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN’ Fs TRAPPED IN ATTEMPT TO SELL DRUG White Cross Worker Poses. as Purchaser in Chinese Cafe of a series of articles by Claire eee edventuree ta, helping’ ts | the dope ring in Seattle.) | BY CLAIRE DULAC I learned that Gladys Allen, eight years ago an innocent high schoo! | sirl, had fallen so far from the use | of drugs that she'd married a China-| man. ‘While I was looking thru China- town for her, suddenly she bobbed up. She landed tn a hospital here, Jagged on hop and her back injured where a man had kicked her after | knocking her down because she | wasn’t peddling enough dope to suit | She had an operation and was growing stronger. Her physician and nurses had her “off the stuff.” pital cured of her habit One day a nurse noticed a queer stint in Gladys’ eyen. “Gladys,” sho said. “Where did you get it?” The girl waa trying to conceal an jenvelope. The nurse took it from jber. It had gone thru the Seattle postoffice, had a two-cent stamp on the corner and was addressed to Gladys. “Did {t come tn this?” asked the nurse. The girl nodded, “Yes.” The envelope was turned over to |government authorities. Inside was la letter explaining that the sender |was enclosing a package of some- [thing that Gladys would want. The letter was full of endearing terms. It was signed, “Ko Lat” | Ko Lai wag Gladys’ husband, the | Chinaman, “GET KO LAL” ORDER |TO UNDERCOVER WORKERS “Get Ko Lal,” were the orders ts- sued next day to our squad of un- dercover workers. Two days later Ko Lai was in jail. Meanwhile he had sent ber another letter contain. ing dope, This letter wag inter. |cepted before it reached her at the | hospital. It was « simple feat to find Ko Lal, much more so than to get Ling! Fat red handed. Ling Fat was a wary, suspicious bird, « small whole- saler of dope, One of our government operatives was in Ling’s place one night at 210% Washington st. Ling laughed in his face. “I too smart Chinaman,” he said. The operative went out. But on the wall above the telephone he had noticed a number, He went to another telephone and called it—Main 5540. “This is Ying,” swer. “Where can I see you tomor- row?” the operative asked. “You call up tomorrow at 2." At the appointed hour the opera } tive had me call Ying, He said) he would meet me in the Shanghai at Second ave, and came the an restaurant, Yesler way. MEET WHERE ANTLDOPE SOCIETY HOLDS FORTH That was odd, I thought, because the Shanghai restaurant is where the China club holds its meetings. | The China club ts fighting the drug evil with all its force. I went to the Shanghai, theless, and took a box. Across the room, in another box, was « man with a light mustache and a woman. I thought the man looked familiar, but it was some time be-| fore I penetrated his disguise, It was Bob Baerman, of the police) narcotic squad. His mustache was false. Half a dozen Chinamen came in and passed my box, giving me a/ sidelong “once over." This is the usual procedure. If I look like “dynamite” the Chinaman I'm wait- ing for doesn’t come. If I look all right, he is so informed, and keeps his appointment, Ying came, ’ I showed him a letter the operative had given me, It was from a St. Louis drug peddler, telling me to look | up Ling Fat at 210% Washington st., show him the letter and have him* tear it up and burn it. The letter said to have Ling wire Joe (Turn to Page 10, Column 3) é never: || their hungry onslabghts., {odunty auditor's office, setting forth | should be made, “the light turned in | paid $7,500 a year is in fact a chauf- |feur to the head of a division. \rageous.” Tr EW LATE EDITION ——— TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Rats Invading Portland; Eat Up Piano Legs) | PORTLAND, June 3.—Portland needs a pied piper of Hamelin or || anywhere else. | Thousands of giant rats of the Norwegian brown variety, driven from their usual haunts by the high water, are moving thru the business district, devouring as they go. Even plano legs, boxes and mattresses are not safe from Efforts to rid basements of the rodents have been futile. Re 1 usual feline of the domestic ‘va- riety is not ferocious enough to cope with the foot and a half big || fellows from the wharves, and |) poison seems to make them fat- || ter. ‘ | In some sections of the resi- |/ dence districts householders have been annoyed by the rats and a venturesome straggler or two have ambled down the main streets of the city, spreading con- sternation to right, left, behind || and in front of them. Frantic citizens, usually calm and sedate, are indulging with considerable frequency in the hectic pastime of rat hunting. CAN'T DESCRIBE MAHONEY ‘WIFE’ Attomey Says He Can’t Re- member Imposter Altho Emil J. Brandt, notary tn the Lumber Exchange building, knows the woman was not Mrs. Kate Ma- honey who came to his offices sev- eral weeks ago and signed Mrs. Ma- honey’s name to papers granting James E. Mahoney power of attor- ney, the notary said today he was unable to give any sort of descrip- tion of the woman. Asked if she was a blonde or a bru- net, Brandt said his recollection fail- ed him even on that point. “Many people come to my office to get papers notaried,” said Brandt. “This incident happened so long ago I really don't remember the woman at all. All I know is she was not the real Mrs. Mahoney, whom I had known by her former name for many years, “I didn't know at the time the pa- pers were made out that the woman I knew was the wife of Mahoney, so, of course, I wasn’t suspicious.” The police may be able to identify the woman who posed as Mrs, Ma- honey by her handwriting, it is said, tho this is a long chance. An affidavit filed by Brandt tn the the fact that the real Mrs. Mahoney was not the signer of the papers has prevented Mahoney or his attorney, Lee Johnston, from collecting the rents on the pftoperty here belonging to the wealthy, aged and missing bride for whose body the police are still diligently searching the bottom of Lake Union. err Says Shipping Board : § Reeking With Graft WASHINGTON, June 3.—Ship- pitg board salary lists and expense accounts are “reeking with graft,” Senator Kenyon, lowa, charged to- day in a speech to the senate. He declared an immediate investigation on the way government money has been used” and certain persons pun-, ished. He deciared that an “assistant” He read into the records a list of salar- jes whieh he declared are od ‘The siege of Troy is supposed have lasted 10 years, to Farmer Suspects Old Enemy an Ex-Convict; House Destroyed The home of Joe Moss, a negr farmer at Lake City, three | north of the Seattle city limits |the Bothell highway, lies in | Friday while police are se |for a negro ex-convict whom suspects of destroying his dwelll The house was burned Thursd The suspected man, whose naj Moss has given to police, has b | his enemy for years, Moss said day ’ Neighbors reported seeing men, two negroes and a white, up to the house Thursday in an truck. They loaded the entire contents: the house, including a piano, the truck, the neighbors say, they set fire to the home and away. Before the neighbors detected fire it was beyond eontrol, and house was totally destroyed. When Moss returned to Lake € late in the day he found left of hig home but embers. He returned to the efty and has tablished a temporary home at Washington st. No trace has been found of truck or the stolen furniture, i ee Aids i , ids in Hold-' R. J. Davis, 1725 Yesler way, held up at 14th ave. and Main st, 10 p. m. Thursday by two negro dits and robbed of $57, He was ing on Main tt, The negroes are described as about 35 years old. The taller one was about six tall, dark suit and smooth The smaller one wag five inches in height, 140 pounds, ing a blue suit and black hat. left coat sleeve was empty. The first negro flashed a revolver in Davis’ face. No has been found of the pair, Organized Fight on Taxes Opens Ton Steps will be taken tonight to fect a permanent organization fight high’taxes. Representatives civic, social and business tions will meet in the Knights of thias Hall, Third ave and i st, at 8 o'clock, More than 22 or. ganizations have signified their in- tention of sending delegates to the meeting. 4 Customs Asked to Take Peggy’s Gems CHICAGO, June 3.—The New York customs office was asked late today to seize the million dollars’ worth of Jewels of Peggy Joyce, beautiful actress, pending investigation wheth- er she smuggled them into the coun try. The recommendation of seizure was made by W. H. Williams, intelligence. officer for the customs department, who had been investigating Peggy _ and her wealth of jewels here, Toddle, Shimmy, and Aid Maimed Kiddies Here's an easy way to help crippled kiddies at the Orthopedic hospital, : Dance geside the wild sea waves Friday evening, June 10, at Sea Breeze pavilion, Luna Park. The dance will be held under the auspices of the Alki Auxiliary of the Orthopedic hospital, who. are raising funds to endow a bed for the youngsters. There will be accommodations for more than 1,000 dancers. TOMORROW The Star will be turned over to the University of Washington school of Students in news- journalism. writing at the big state school will “cover” all beats, write all copy, and edit every line that goes into the paper. This is in accordance with The Star’s annual custom of giving the prospective journalists a day of real work in.getting out a them a taste of their life real newspaper. It gives work and it gives: YOU, readers, a treat, too, because they see things with a different vision and produce a paper with, pei a fresher touch than do we who write or handle news of the world every day.